Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of British Columbia at Vancouver owes much of its existence to the sis-boom-ah of its galumphing student body. In 1922, fed up with government delays in providing permanent buildings, undergraduates marched eight miles to a wooded headland overlooking Howe Sound, heaved boulders into a cairn and started one of the handsomest campuses in North America. In subsequent years they have built a gymnasium, a playing field and stadium, a recreation hall...
...profits were estimated at only $5,100,000-practically nothing for a $700,000,000 corporation in a boom year. The war years checked the trend. Profits (as indicated by changes in the company's surplus account) rose to an average $24,000,000 a year, But there was new trouble. Hobbled by 773 strikes in four and a half years, the efficiency of Ford workers dropped some 34%, far more, according to trade gossip, than any other auto com pany. As long as Uncle Sam paid the bills, the company could swim. In peace this labor sabotage...
There were other big-name possibilities for the Democratic ticket. An early effort to get Jimmy Roosevelt to run for Governor failed, but Jimmy would keep his hand in as a member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee. Colonel Evans Carlson, of raider fame, had an early boom for the Senate, and Democrats were trying to persuade General Joseph Stilwell to run for something. Will Rogers Jr., back from the war and not so sure that he wants his House seat again, thought of trying to unseat State Senator Jack Tenney, head of California's "Little Dies...
...tireless competition between Hereford and Aberdeen Angus men, the new $51,000 record may not last long. But many a cattleman thinks that such fantastic prices, even in boom times, are dangerous risks. A good bull can pay for himself in breeding fees in a few months, but a bad one cannot. Two years ago a bull named T. Royal Rupert 99th sold for a world record $38,000. Cattlemen soon dubbed him "Reluctant Rupert." He has shown absolutely no interest in cows...
...stockholders alleged that the Milwaukee Co., during the last seven years, had had annual average earnings before fixed charges of $25,963,740, while fixed charges were at a yearly average of only $23,481,841. The profits only started with the five-year wartime traffic boom which pulled many another U.S. railroad...